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Migrating Your Legacy Firewall to a Next Generation Firewall

Every organization today needs a multi-layer security strategy to (more…)

Cindy Kaplan2024-06-27T20:24:16+00:00Categories: Governance & Risk Management|Tags: cyber, firewall, Information Security, migration, next gen, NGFW, risk|

ENDPOINT DETECTION AND RESPONSE: FIRE FOR EFFECT

The modern digital landscape is a battleground rife with adversaries ready (more…)

Cindy Kaplan2024-11-27T19:50:49+00:00Categories: Incident Response, Modern Malware|Tags: Cyber attacks, EDR, Endpoint, endpoint detection and response, Incident response, Information Security, IR, malware|

The Information Security Agent

If you work in the information security industry go (more…)

Cindy Kaplan2024-07-31T18:00:37+00:00Categories: WorkForce|Tags: Information Security, InfoSec, recruiter|

2014 Information Security Hiring Trends: Defense!

Yes, it’s another information security predictions article – security (more…)

Cindy Kaplan2024-07-31T18:00:37+00:00Categories: WorkForce|Tags: blue team, CISO, coders, Compliance, hiring, Information Security, InfoSec, OWASP, red team, security engineer|

Common Hazards in Risk Management: The Selfish Risk Assessment

Information security laws and regulations are telling us to conduct cyber (more…)

Cindy Kaplan2024-07-03T19:22:46+00:00Categories: Governance & Risk Management, Risk Assessments|Tags: Breach, identity Theft, Information Security, ISO 27005, NIST SP 800-30, Risk Assessment, risk management|

The NSA’s Threat to Information Security Culture

Over the past few weeks we’ve seen news coming out of the Edward (more…)

Cindy Kaplan2024-06-28T19:21:15+00:00Categories: Governance & Risk Management|Tags: Information Security, ISO, NSA, Snowden|

Your Policies Can Hurt You, Part 2: Overzealous Policies Can Create Breach-Prone Environments

Early on in my information security career I was auditing a firm that (more…)

Cindy Kaplan2024-06-28T19:22:04+00:00Categories: Governance & Risk Management|Tags: Audit, Governance & Compliance, Information Security, Personally Identifiable Information, PII, Policies|

Why are Hackers Heckling the Director of the NSA?

The Hackers Heckling. The Black Hat convention is under (more…)

Cindy Kaplan2024-06-28T19:33:39+00:00Categories: Governance & Risk Management, Vulnerability Management|Tags: General Alexander, Hackers, Information Security, InfoSec, NSA|

Risk Acceptance Levels: Managing the Lower Limits of Security Costs

Last week I presented a topic here at Halock’s blog site (more…)

Cindy Kaplan2024-07-03T19:22:46+00:00Categories: Duty of Care Risk Assessment (DoCRA), Governance & Risk Management, Reasonable Security | Reasonable Risk, Risk Assessments|Tags: impact, Information Security, reasonable and appropriate, risk, Risk Assessment, risk management, risk register, the hand rule|

We Need a Risk Management Tipping Point

While preparing for a keynote talk at CAMP IT that is (more…)

Cindy Kaplan2024-08-13T20:30:46+00:00Categories: Governance & Risk Management, HIPAA Compliance|Tags: HIPAA, inefficiency, Information Security, Risk Assessment, risk management, security, SOC 2|